When I was in college in D.C. lo these many years ago, a friend of mine’s uncle took us out to dinner at the Watergate complex (still the only time I have ever been inside it). He had been a tech guy at HBO in its early days, when he quit on the spot over compensation issues; a week later, they hired him as a consultant and the next thing he knew, he had a thriving tech consulting company in the cable and communications industry. I have never forgotten what he said to me when explaining, decades after the event, why he left HBO – he said “sales gets all the money – and don’t forget it.”